image: (A) Charleston Harbor Estuary is one of the busiest and fastest growing container ports in the southeast USA. Image credit: Lindsey Transue. (B) Six passive acoustic recorders were deployed from December 2017 to June 2019 to determine biological patterns and human-associated influences on the soundscape. Image credit: Agnieszka Monczak. (C) Long-term, fishery independent tag recapture program for red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) performed by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR). This fish was successfully tagged and released back into Charleston Harbor. Red drum may be particular sensitive to vessel noise because these fish call and chorus during the late afternoon into early evening, when recreational and commercial vessel noise is the highest. Image credit: Brock Renkas. (D) Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) breaching. In Charleston Harbor, these animals exhibited the Lombard effect and increased their vocalizations in the presence of vessel noise. Image credit: Meghan Gallipeau, NMFS Permit No. 18859 issued to Dr. Patricia Fair. view more
Credit: Collage created by Eric W. Montie, with images from Lindsey Transue (A), Agnieszka Monczak (B), Brock Renkas (C) and Meghan Gallipeau/Dr. Patricia Fair (D), CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Fish and bottlenose dolphins react differently to life in noisy shipping corridor of Charleston Harbor Estuary, with fish calls and choruses decreasing with anthropogenic noise, and dolphins ramping up vocalizations
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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0283848
Article Title: The Biological and Anthropogenic Soundscape of an Urbanized Port – the Charleston Harbor Estuary, South Carolina, USA
Author Countries: USA
Funding: We thank the South Carolina Aquarium (https://scaquarium.org/) for support and sponsorship to PF. This project was also supported by the Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust and partially funded by the South Carolina Ports Authority (https://scspa.com/) to PF. This project was also supported by the Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association (SECOORA; https://secoora.org/) with NOAA financial assistance award number NA21NOS0120097 to EWM. The statements, findings, conclusions, and recommendations are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of SECOORA or NOAA. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Journal
PLOS One
Article Title
The Biological and Anthropogenic Soundscape of an Urbanized Port – the Charleston Harbor Estuary, South Carolina, USA
Article Publication Date
19-Apr-2023
COI Statement
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.